Be ye
therefore followers of God, as dear children;
02 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved
us, and hath given himself for us an offering and
a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
03 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or
covetousness, let it not be once named among you,
as becometh saints;
04 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor
jesting, which are not convenient: but rather
giving of thanks.
05 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor
unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an
idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of
Christ and of God.
06 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for
because of these things cometh the wrath of God
upon the children of disobedience.
07 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
08 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye
light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
09 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all
goodness and righteousness and truth;)
10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful
works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
12 For it is a shame even to speak of those
things which are done of them in secret.
13 But all things that are reproved are made
manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make
manifest is light.
14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest,
and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give
thee light.
15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as
fools, but as wise,
16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding
what the will of the Lord is.
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18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess;
but be filled with the Spirit;
19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs, singing and making melody in
your heart to the Lord;
20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God
and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ;
21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the
fear of God.
22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own
husbands, as unto the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even
as Christ is the head of the church: and he is
the saviour of the body.
24 Therefore as the church is subject unto
Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands
in every thing.
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also
loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the
washing of water by the word,
27 That he might present it to himself a glorious
church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such
thing; but that it should be holy and without
blemish.
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own
bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but
nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord
the church:
30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh,
and of his bones.
31 For this cause shall a man leave his father
and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife,
and they two shall be one flesh.
32 This is a great mystery: but I speak
concerning Christ and the church.
33 Nevertheless let every one of you in
particular so love his wife even as himself; and
the wife see that she reverence her husband.
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